Page 13 - Hillside 2017 Newsletter for Web

Twin Foals Born to Rescued Mare... Jessie’s Moneybox...

This year we had Poor Jessie was devastated when heartless thieves
around 60 rescued ransacked the contents of her family's car and
mares, mostly from emptied her Hillside collection box of the
stray horse pounds, donations she had been carefully saving to hand in
who came to us to a Hillside Open Day.
pregnant and were
waiting to give birth. However, when we let our supporters know what
Staff watched over had happened, they sprang into action and donated
them day and night to to help Jessie refill her moneybox. Jessie's big frown
assist if necessary to was soon turned into a beaming smile, and everyone
ensure the foals were born safely. One rescued Thoroughbred at Hillside was smiling too, when we counted all the
mare gave birth in the early hours of the morning and surprised us donations and found £2415 had been
with twin foals - a colt and a filly! When scanning the mares, our raised for our rescued animals.
vet advised that one may be carrying twins,but this wasn't the mare!
The first, smaller, foal was safely born while the mare, who we took We were thrilled to welcome Jessie to
in after she had been abandoned in Cheshire last year, needed our our Open Day, (right) where she
help to deliver the second, larger twin.Apparently, the odds of both handed in a further £120 that her
twin foals surviving is just 10,000 to 1! We are pleased to report family and friends had donated to make
that both are growing up to be strong and healthy foals. up for the actions of the cruel thieves.

Cows Arrive From Ireland... An elderly dairy farmer in Ireland who saw BBC
Countryfile’s coverage of the vegetarian farmer
whose cows came to Hillside (see page 12) asked if
we would also give her cows a home.

It was clear that she loved them very much and we
were so pleased that, with the help of our
supporters, we were able to give this gentle herd a
home for life.

A total of 45 cows and 18 calves arrived during 2017
with 20 more expected in spring 2018.

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